The forktail cat is one of four most popular catfish, to fish for and grows to above 100 pounds. The current competitor for the U.S. record of one hundred tewnty four pounds is from the Mississippi River in Illinois 5 22 2005. There are 572,000,000 million pounds of catfish raised for profit. Recent June 28, 2005 discovery of the Lacantunia enigmatica catfish in Chiapas, Mexico is the only specimen of catfish of the ancient Tertiary age dating back to the time before the ice age.

World's heaviest catfish, weighed six hundred fourty six pounds, caught in the Area of Ton Le Sap in Cambodia., May 1,2005, and is named as the Pangasianodon gigas Catfish, and is being studied as an endangered species.

The spotted cat grow to 45 pounds averaging 14 years but are known to live to 20 years.

The wedged head, of the shovelhead cat and the yellow color denotes the 2nd heaviest inland water catfish. The United States record is 98.50, pounds, Near Tyler, TX, in nineteen hundred ninety eight. These catfish might live 19 years and longer. Most varieties of catfish from clean water is very good table fare.

Catfish Lure in the secret formulas, subsidize dead minnows for the preferred attractant for catfish.